Day 3 of 365
January 3
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Space Neutron Stars and Extreme Density
Neutron stars are the collapsed cores of massive stars and are incredibly dense. A teaspoon of neutron star material would weigh about 6 billion tons on Earth. These stars spin rapidly, with some rotating hundreds of times per second, creating pulses of radiation we can detect from Earth.
💡 Did you know?
If you dropped an object from one meter above a neutron star's surface, it would hit the ground at 7.2 million kilometers per hour!
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